Saturday, 21 May
0800-2100
Board of Directors Meeting & Dinner – invite only
0900-1500
Full Day Warsaw Tour – 6 hours
During this nostalgic panoramic city tour you will enjoy a walking tour passing by the Castle Square, King Sigismund's Column,
St. John's Cathedral, the Old Town Market Square and the Barbican. The Old Town (originally built in 14th and 15th centuries,
totally destroyed during WWII and carefully raised from the ruins between 1945-1955) currently is listed at UNESCO World
Heritage, but it is also a heart of the city, full of galleries, cafés and restaurants and with one of the symbols of Warsaw - Royal
Castle.
For more information and how to sign up, click here.
Sunday, 22 May
0600-2000
Full Day Pendolino, Krakow & Salt Mines Tour – 14 hours
Take the sites in at Krakow by seeing the Old Town area within the Planty greenbelt - an excellently preserved medieval city,
St. Mary’s Church with the famous wooden altar, the Town Hall Tower, the Cloth Hall, the ”Wierzynek” restaurant and the
burgher houses, Wawel hill - dominated by the Cathedral, the Castle and the defense towers. You will visit Wieliczka Salt
Mines, a unique venue full of marvelous chambers excavated and sculpted in rock salt, listed at UNESCO World Heritage, world
class attraction, only two places of this kind are available all over the world, one in Austria, one next to Krakow. This tour
includes the most beautiful chambers with St. Kinga Chapel, the biggest mine chapel in the world.
For more information and how to sign up, click here.
0800 -1200
Board of Directors & ECCG Meeting – invite only
0800-1600
Exhibitor Set-up
0800-1700
Registration
0900-1800
ITB Fire Testing Laboratory Tour in Pionki
ITB is offering a complimentary tour for the first 25 registrants that sign up. The tour is an opportunity for Fire Safety Experts
to gain firsthand experience in fire testing of various building elements. This event will help understanding the fire
requirements given in prescriptive codes, and allow to “touch” what does the required indexes really stand for. ITB
representatives during the tour will guide participants through various methods, ranging from small “desktop” scale to some
of the world’s largest furnaces, sharing their experience and observations. ITB employees are also fire engineers, researchers
and practitioners in computational analysis, who can share a very unique point of view on the fire safety built on practical
experience in both prescriptive and performance side of our field.
For more information click here. Spaces are limited and will fill up quickly, don’t forget to make your selection during
registration.
1800-2000
VIP Reception – invite only
Monday, 23 May
0800-1700
Registration
0800-2000
Exhibits
0900-0920
Welcoming Remarks, Milosh Puchovsky, PE, FSFPE, 2016 SFPE President; Piotr Tofilo, Ph.D., The Main School of
Fire Service / Polish SFPE Chapter
0920-0950
Using Data to Enhance Fire and Life Safety Inspection and Enforcement Programs, Kathleen H. Almand, PE,
FSFPE, Vice President, Research, National Fire Protection Association
0950-1020
Ventilation for Smoke Control, Fire Control and Life Safety in Tunnels, Ricky Carvel, Ph.D., Lecturer, University of
Edinburgh
Break
1020-1050
1050-1230
Parallel Track A
Regulation
Parallel Track B
Human Behavior/Egress
1050-1115
01. Towards a Next Generation Performance-Based
Building Regulatory System Architecture, Brian
Meacham, Ph.D., PE, FSFPE, C.Eng,. FIFireE, Associate
Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
00. Revisions to the SFPE Guide to Human Behavior in
Fire, Chris Jelenewicz, PE, FSFPE, Senior Manager,
Engineering Practice, SFPE
1115-1140
65. The Singapore Fire Safety Engineering
Guidelines (SFEG), Nicholas Lee, Senior Consultant,
Singapore Civil Defence Force
14. Virtual Compartment: An Alternative Approach to
Means of Egress Design in Airport Pedestrian Tunnel,
Xiaolei Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, California State
University; Ning Frank Wang, PE, Senior Fire Protection
Engineer, Jensen Hughes
1140-1205
63. Applying Consistent Imprecision in Quantitative
Performance-Based Fire Safety Design, Martin
Feeney, FSFPE, Principal, Holmes Fire
34. Evacuation and Life Safety Assessment in Germany,
Gregor Jäger, MSc, Fire Protection Engineer, BFT Cognos
GmbH; Benjamin Schröder, MSc., Ph.D. Student,
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
1205-1230
48. The New Zealand Building Code Verification
Method VM2 – Four years on – A Practitioner’s
Perspective, Michael James, ME (Fire), BE (Mech),
CPENG, IntPE, MIPENZ (Fire), PMSFPE, Managing
Director, Origin Fire Consultants Ltd.
53. Sensitivity Analysis for Modelling Parameters Used
for Advanced Evacuation Simulations – How Important
Are the Modelling Parameters When Conducting
Evacuation Modelling? Olaf Pérez, MSc, Fire Engineer,
JVVA Fire & Risk; Gabriele Vigne, MSc MAast MSFPE, Fire
Safety Engineer, JVVA Fire & Risk; Jimmy Jönsson, BSc
Fire, MSc Risk, PMSFPE, Director, JVVA Fire & Risk
1230-1330
Lunch
1330-1600
1330-1345
Case Studies
Underground Car Park
Hong Kong - W.K. Chow, FSFPE, Chair Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
1345-1400
Japan - Kiiyoshi Fukui, Chief Architect, Life Safety Planning Section, Nikken Sekkei
1400-1415
Poland - Dorota Brzezinska, Ph.D., Technical University of Lodz, SFPE Polish Chapter; Piotr Smardz, MSc CEng
MIEI, Partner, INBEPO Sp. z o.o.
Sweden – Alex Jönsson, BSc, MSc, Fire Safety Consultant, Brandskyddslaget
1415-1430
1430-1445
1445-1500
United Kingdom - Darren Agnew, BSc, AIFireE, Fire Engineer, Hoare Lea; Gary Daniels, MPhil, BSc, CEng, MIFireE,
PMSFPE, Associate, Hoare Lea Fire Engineering; Declan Thomas, BSc, MSc, AIFireE, Fire Engineer, Hoare Lea
USA - William E. Koffel, Jr., PE, FSFPE, President, Koffel Associates, Inc.
1500-1600
Case Study Panel Discussion
1600-1630
Break
1630-1635
Welcome Back
1635-1735
Update on SFPE Design Fire Scenarios Standard, Charles Fleischmann, Ph.D., FSFPE, Professor, University of
Canterbury
Welcome Reception
1800-2000
Tuesday, 24 May
0730-1730
Registration
0800-1730
Exhibits
0800-0805
Welcome
0805-0835
Keynote - William E. Koffel Jr., PE, FSFPE, is President of Koffel Associates, Inc.
0835-0905
Challenges Facing the Government Official – Examples of How Fire Safety and Risk Engineering Methods Can
Solve a Wide Variety of Problems, Björn Karlsson, Ph.D., Director General, Iceland Construction Authority
Parallel Track A
Parallel Track B
Fire Models
Applications – Life Safety
67. Hand Calculations, Zone Models and CFD –
36. Experiments to Develop a Performance-based
Areas of Disagreement and Limits of Application in
Ranking Assessment Method for Rooms Partially Lined
Practical Fire Protection Engineering, Piotr Tofilo,
Ph.D., The Main School of Fire Service / Polish SFPE
0905-0955
0905-0930
Chapter; Wojciech Węgrzyński, MSc. FPE, Head of
Smoke Control, Signaling and Fire Automation
Division, Building Research Institute (ITB); Rafał
Porowski, Ph.D., The Main School of Fire Service
with Timber, Harriet Peel, Fire Engineer, Olsson Fire &
Risk New Zealand Ltd
0930-0955
12. Use of FDS To Comply with Performance-Based
Requirements Based on Layer Height, Marc L.
Janssens, Ph.D., Senior Engineer, Southwest
Research Institute
66. Case Study: Power Utility Path toward a Performance
Based Fire Protection Solution Addressing Local Spanish
and Regional EU Regulations, Paul E. Rivers, PE, FSFPE,
Senior Fire Protection Specialist, 3M
0955-1025
Break
1025-1205
Parallel Track A
Fire Models
51. The Pre-Flashover Compartment Fire and Fire
Safety Engineering – A Review of Hand-‐Calculation
Methods, Nils Johansson, Ph.D. in Fire Safety
Engineering, B.Sc. in Fire Protection Engineering and
M.Sc. in Risk Management and Safety Engineering,
Associate Senior Lecturer, Lund University
Parallel Track B
Applications - Framework
39. Fire Safety Engineering for Innovative and
Sustainable Building Solutions - Development of Building
Processes Focusing on Review & Control of Fire Safety
Engineering, Johan Norén, BSc., MSc., Technical Director,
Briab Brand & Riskingenjörerna AB
1050-1115
20. Use of CFD in the Performance-Based Design for
Fire Safety in the Oil and Gas Sector, Camille Azzi,
Ph.D., Senior Engineer, GexCon AS
69. Determining Baseline Performance and the
Application to Performance Based Design, Simon
Goodhead, PE, CEng, MIFireE, Director, Jensen Hughes;
Eddie Farrow, MIFireE, Consultant, Jensen Hughes
1115-1140
09. A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Different
External Fire Spread Calculation Methods, Declan
Thomson, BSc, MSc, AIFireE, Fire Engineer, Hoare
Lea
42. Performance Based Design – An Aid to Rectifying
Building Errors, Lawrence Reddaway, MA(Cantab),
GradDipMgmt, GradDipConstnLaw, FIEAust, MSFPE, Fire
Engineer, Reddaway Enterprise Pty Ltd.
1140-1205
43. Influence of Material of Boundary Condition on
Temperature and Visibility, Luciano Nigro Sr., P.Eng,
President, Technical Director, Hughes Associates
Europe; Andrea Ferrari Sr., P.Eng, Fire Protection
Engineer, Hughes Associates Europe; Elisabetta
Filippo Jr., MSc, Project Engineer, Hughes Associates
Europe
68. Fire Engineering Platform - A New Tool Package
Addressing the Needs of Fire Protection Engineers, AHJs
and Educators, Piotr Tofilo, Ph.D., The Main School of Fire
Service / Polish SFPE Chapter
1205-1305
Lunch
1305-1335
Travelling Fires for the Structural Design of Buildings, Guillermo Rein, Ph.D., Reader in Thermal Energy,
Department of Mechanical Engineering of Imperial College and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Fire Technology
Parallel Track A
Parallel Track B
Risk
Structural - Applications
17. Probabilistic Fire Risk Analysis in the Nordic
26. Numerical Study on the Influence of A Design Fire
Region, Greg Baker, BE, ME, MSFPE, Chief Scientist,
Scenario on the Response of a 10-story Steel Frame:
SP Fire Research AS
Travelling Fires and Eurocode Parametric Timetemperature Curves, Egle Rackauskaite, Research
Postgraduate, Imperial College London
1025-1050
1335-1450
1335-1400
1400-1425
40. On the Use of Fire Modeling Tools to Support
Performance Based Design Evaluations and
50. 103 Colmore Row Streamlining Structural Fire
Engineering; from “Brute” to “Beaut”! Nigel Hiorns, BSC,
MSFPE, MIFireE, FIHEEM, Managing Partner, Fire
Regulatory Acceptance, Justin Williamson, Ph.D.,
Fire Protection Engineer, Jensen Hughes
Ingenuity, Maria Kierzek, BSc, Post Graduate Student,
Poznan University of Technology
1425-1450
08. Development of a QRA Method for Quantifying
the Life Safety Risk in Complex Buildings, Bart van
Weyenberge, Ph.D., Researcher, University of Ghent
55. Practical Problems of Applying Performance-Based
Structural Fire Engineering in Building Design, Piotr
Smardz, MSc CEng MIEI, Partner, INBEPO Sp. z o.o.
1450-1520
Break
1525-1530
Welcome Back
1530-1745
1530-1545
Case Studies
Production & Storage Building
Finland - Juho Pussinen, Chief Fire Protection Engineer, Industrial fire safety, L2 Fire Safety Ltd.
1545-1600
France - Eric Guillaume, Technical Director, Efectis Group
1600-1615
1630-1645
New Zealand – Carol Caldwell, CPEng, Director, Enlightened Solutions; Charles Fleischmann, Ph.D., FSFPE,
Professor, University of Canterbury
Poland – Piotr Tofilo, Ph.D., The Main School of Fire Service / Polish SFPE Chapter; Wojciech Węgrzyński, M.Sc.
FPE, Head of Smoke Control, Signaling and Fire Automation Division, Building Research Institute (ITB)
Spain - Jimmy Jönsson, BSc Fire, MSc Risk, PMSFPE, Director, JVVA Fire & Risk
1645-1745
Case Study Panel Discussion
1800-1930
Reception
1930-2130
Dinner
1615-1630
Wednesday, 25 May
0730-1700
Registration
0800-1430
Exhibits
0800-0805
Welcome
0805-0835
Making Buildings Smarter: Sensor Based Monitoring of People Location and Movement during Evacuation,
Daniel Nilsson, Ph.D., FSE, Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety, Lund University
Keynote – Christopher Wieczorek, Ph.D., Group Manager Fire & Explosion Protection, FM Global
0835-0905
0905-0955
Parallel Track A
Smoke
33. Influence of Variability of Soot Yield Parameter
in Assessing the Safe Evacuation Conditions in
Advanced Modeling Analysis. Results of Physical
and Numerical Modeling Comparison, Gabriele
Vigne, MSc MAast MSFPE, Fire Safety Engineer,
JVVA Fire & Risk; Wojciech Węgrzyński, MSc. FPE,
Head of Smoke Control, Signaling and Fire
Automation Division, Building Research Institute
(ITB)
Parallel Track B
Structural - Concrete
46. Combined Approach for High Temperature Concrete
Simulations, Matteo Pachera, Ph.D. Student, University of
Padova; Francesco Pesavento, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
University of Padova
0930-0955
11. Experimental Study to Evaluate Smoke
Stratification and Layer Height In Highly Ventilated
Compartments, Jason P. Huczek, M. Eng., Principal
Engineer, Southwest Research Institute
16. A New Test Method to Investigate the Fire Behavior
of Composite Concrete Slabs, David Fox, Ph.D., Fire Safety
Engineer, Olsson Fire and Risk
0955-1025
Break
1025-1205
Parallel Track A
0905-0930
Parallel Track B
Smoke
Applications - FSE
1025-1050
54. Active Pressure Control in HVAC Systems, A
Cost-Effective Solution to Limit Fire and Smoke
Spread in Airtight Buildings, Pär Hansson, BSc Fire
Protection Engineer LTH, CEO, FSD Göteborg AB;
Mattias Arnqvist, BSc Fire Protection Engineer LTH,
CEO, FSD Göteborg AB
24. Safety Concept for Underground Garages Open for
Cars Powered by LPG -Results of Real Scale Tests, Dorota
Brzezinska, Ph.D., Technical University of Lodz, SFPE
Polish Chapter
1050-1115
62. Smoke Control and Performance-Based Design
of Tall Atrium Office Buildings: New Zealand Case
Studies, Martin Feeney, FSFPE, Principal, Holmes
Fire
19. Performance-Based Fire Safety Design of Cold
Storages, Atli Rutur Thorsteinsson, Fire Safety Engineer,
EFLA Consulting Engineers; Bodvar Tomasson, Division
Manager, EFLA Consulting Engineers
1115-1140
35. Fire safety of staircases in Multi-Story buildings
- The results of measurements in Buildings and
Simulations, Grzegorz Kubicki, Ph.D., Lecturer,
Department of Environmental Engineering Warsaw
University of Technology; Izabela Tekielak-Skałka,
R&D Manager, SMAY, LLS
32. Design and Remediation for Fire Safety of ReadyMade Garment Factories in Bangladesh, Felipe Herrera,
Senior Engineer, Ove Arup and Partners SAU; George
Faller, CEng MIStructE, MIFireE, Associate Director, Ove
Arup and Partners SAU
1140-1205
58. Design of Smoke Exhaust From a Common
Reservoir – Shaping the Compartment Opening For
The Benefits of Smoke Control, Wojciech
Węgrzyński, MSc FPE, Head of Smoke Control,
Signaling and Fire Automation Division, Building
Research Institute (ITB)
07. Future Prospect in the Building Industry – A Need for
More Performance-Based Design?, Karl Wallasch, Dipl.Ing., CEng, Associate Fire Engineer, Hoare Lea
1205-1305
Lunch
1305-1335
Performance-Based Approaches for External Fire Spread and Thermal Radiation Calculations, Piotr Tofilo, Ph.D.,
The Main School of Fire Service / Polish SFPE Chapter
Parallel Track A
Parallel Track B
Smoke
Structural - Applications
10. Review of the Methodology of Protecting
22. Eurocode 5 Design in Comparison with Fire
Staircases and Common Areas in Residential
Resistance Test of Unprotected Timber Beams, Daniël
Buildings, Gary Daniels, MPhil, BSc, CEng, MIFireE,
Brandon, Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc., Scientist, SP Technical
PMSFPE, Associate, Hoare Lea Fire Engineering
Research Institute of Sweden; Joachim Schmid, M.Sc.,
B.Sc., Project Leader, SP Technical Research Institute of
Sweden; Alar Just, Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc., Scientist, SP
Technical Research Institute of Sweden
1335-1425
1335-1400
1400-1425
15. Preventing Smoke Spread with the Ventilation
System in Operation, Anna-Carin Olmedal, Fire
Protection Engineer, Brandkonsulten AB
1425-1455
Break
1455-1630
Exhibitor Break Down
1455-1500
Welcome Back
1500-1700
Case Studies
Shopping Center
Australia - Weng Poh, Ph.D, National Technical Director—Fire Engineering, Umow Lai; Andy Fung Associate,
Umow Lai
1500-1515
57. Reliability-Based Tool for External Fire Spread
Design, Ruben Van Coile, Ph.D., Fire Safety Engineer,
WSP|PB
1515-1530
Italy – Luca Fiorentini, Fire Safety, Environmental, Industrial Engineering, TECSA S.p.A.
1530-1545
Poland – Marcin Cisek, Fire Protection Appraiser, Protect T.Cisek i Wsp. Sp. J.
1545-1600
1600-1700
United Kingdom - Christine Pongratz, BSc, MSc, AIFireE, E.I.T., Fire Engineer, Arup Fire UK; Darren Agnew, BSc,
AIFireE, Fire Engineer, Hoare Lea; Sandy Kilbourne
Case Study Panel Discussion
1700-1710
Conference Wrap Up
Thursday, 26 May
0730-1700
Registration
0800-1700
Introduction to Fire Risk Assessment – Day 1 of 2
More information click here.
0800-1700
Introduction to Industrial Fire Protection Engineering Seminar – Day 1 of 2
More information click here.
0800-1200
Competency and Credentialing Workshop
The SFPE Subcommittee for Professional Competency and Credentialing is responsible for evaluating minimum occupational
competency standards and licensing and credentialing criteria for fire protection engineers in parts of the world that do not
presently recognize and/or use the U.S. engineering licensure examination. The Subcommittee is in the process of developing
a document that will define the minimum core competencies and criteria for a fire safety engineer that can be widely adopted
worldwide. The Subcommittee will be holding a workshop to solicit feedback on the development of this core competencies
document.
There is no cost to participants, but registration is required.
1300-1700
Fire Safety Engineering Research Agenda Workshop
The SFPE Subcommittee for Research & Innovation is responsible for charting the future research priorities for the profession.
The Subcommittee is in the process of developing a document that will define a research agenda for the fire safety
engineering profession. The Subcommittee will be holding a workshop to solicit feedback on the development of this research
agenda.
There is no cost to participate, but registration is required.
Friday, 27 May
0730-1700
Registration
0800-1700
Introduction to Fire Risk Assessment – Day 2 of 2
More information click here.
0800-1700
Introduction to Industrial Fire Protection Engineering Seminar – Day 2 of 2
More information click here.
0900-1500
Full Day Warsaw Tour – 6 hours
During this nostalgic panoramic city tour you will enjoy a walking tour passing by the Castle Square, King Sigismund's Column,
St. John's Cathedral, the Old Town Market Square and the Barbican. The Old Town (originally built in 14th and 15th centuries,
totally destroyed during WWII and carefully raised from the ruins between 1945-1955) currently is listed at UNESCO World
Heritage, but it is also a heart of the city, full of galleries, cafés and restaurants and with one of the symbols of Warsaw - Royal
Castle.
For more information and how to sign up, click here.
Saturday, 28 May
0600-2000
Full Day Pendolino, Krakow & Salt Mines Tour – 14 hours
Take the sites in at Krakow by seeing the Old Town area within the Planty greenbelt - an excellently preserved medieval city,
St. Mary’s Church with the famous wooden altar, the Town Hall Tower, the Cloth Hall, the ”Wierzynek” restaurant and the
burgher houses, Wawel hill - dominated by the Cathedral, the Castle and the defense towers. You will visit Wieliczka Salt
Mines, a unique venue full of marvelous chambers excavated and sculpted in rock salt, listed at UNESCO World Heritage,
world class attraction, only two places of this kind are available all over the world, one in Austria, one next to Krakow. This
tour includes the most beautiful chambers with St. Kinga Chapel, the biggest mine chapel in the world.
For more information and how to sign up, click here.